Viewing life through a camera lense

If a picture is worth a thousand words then Tom Rousseau, 89, has enough for several libraries in his Spokane Valley home. He started snapping photos while still in high school in Dearborn, Michigan. “I got a box camera,” he recalled. “I built my own darkroom at home.” He grinned. “My parents didn’t like it much.” When he graduated in 1943 at 17 he wanted to join the Marines, but he was too young and his father refused to sign for him. Rousseau shrugged. “So, I went to photographic school in New York and then joined the Marines the day I turned 18.” Because of his aptitude he was sent to photography school at the Naval Training Station in Pensacola, Florida. He wasn’t a student long/ Cindy Hval , SR. More here. (Courtesy photo: Tom Rousseau, now 89, snapped this image on VJ day in 1945 as a young U.S. Marine photographer stationed in South Carolina at the end of WWII)

Question: Are you a decent photographer?